The Course
Pine Valley Slope, Rating, and Yardage
| Tee | Slope | Rating | Yardage | Par |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Championship | 155 | 75.6 | 7057 | 70 |
| Regular | 153 | 72.8 | 6532 | 70 |
Pine Valley Golf Club is praised for the consistent level of challenge and conditioning on each hole, requiring thoughtful placement of the ball from tee to green, and more specifically correct placement on approach shots to the green due to significant swales and undulations. Among its many accolades, Pine Valley has arguably the best collection of par fives and par threes in the world. The course prides itself in being one of the toughest challenges in all of golf, with a slope of 155 from the championship tees. Pine Valley's trademarks are the par three 5th hole, which requires a well-placed 220 yard slightly uphill drive over a lake into a small and sloped green, "Hell's half acre" (a barren wasteland on the par five 7th hole which is probably the largest non sea-side bunker in the world), "The devil's asshole" (an extremely deep bunker on the par three 10th hole), and the famous par four 18th, which incorporates many different elements of the golf course into a spectacular finishing hole.
- Yardage, slope and rating are accurate as of 2010 Scorecard.
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